Word: taylorism
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...Taylor himself does not claim to have discovered a masterpiece. "It's not Hamlet," he says. "It's a kind of virtuoso piece, a kind of early Mozart piece." Early Salieri would be more like it, but Taylor, who wears an earring rather like the one in Shakespeare's portrait, is learning quickly that all the scholarly world's a stage and all the scholars merely players. "I've always regarded this hoo-ha as slightly absurd," he says, "and once it is over, I shall go back to being as ordinary as dirt." --By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Steven...
...terror on the basketball court, but these days Wilt Chamberlain is something of a pussycat. The onetime N.B.A. champion has joined 13 other celebrities--including former President Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth Taylor and Ray Bradbury--who allowed their tabbies to pose for the 1986 Purina Cat Chow Celebrity Cat Calendar in exchange for a donation to the charity of their choice. "They are my kids," says Chamberlain of Zip and Zap, his two domestic short-hair kittens. "They give one a feeling of calmness." Then he meows, "Maybe Patrick Ewing should...
...President Taylor, a U.S. merchant vessel with a small cargo of cotton, was cruising in the Gulf of Oman 26 miles out of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujaira when it happened. An Iranian frigate warned the Taylor to prepare to be boarded. The U.S. captain reluctantly consented. For 45 minutes an Iranian officer and six seamen, three equipped with submachine guns, searched for matériel that might be destined for Iraq, Iran's enemy in the five-year-old gulf war. Finding none, they departed...
...time Cyra was born in 1937, her parents had been knocking about the rodeo trail for six years. Her father was handsome (he later doubled for Robert Taylor in horse-riding scenes for the movie Billy the Kid). Her mother Pat was beautiful, a Southern belle who had left her hometown in Arkansas because she had "tired of grits" and had gone on to succeed as a chorus girl in St. Louis...
Hailed at 17 as the "Chinese Elizabeth Taylor," she was the most popular actress in the People's Republic and the winner of the Oscar-like Hundred Flower award. Two years later, Joan Chen left her homeland ostensibly to study English literature at UCLA. But she stayed, married a Chinese American and pursued a U.S. career in a succession of lackluster television roles. Now Chen, 23, has finally got her big break, the part of the innocent yet scheming beauty, May-May, in the film adaptation of James Clavell's Tai-Pan. The movie just finished shooting on location...